Sekiro Dubi, a FromSoft dataminer who’s beforehand investigated Elden Ring’s lower quests and coliseums, has recently shared data (opens in new tab) from the sport’s information that means deliberate DLC. This info appears to have been buried in Elden Ring for longer than the datamined proof of potential DLC areas uncovered by Lance McDonald and Zullie the Witch we reported on beforehand (opens in new tab).
Sekiro Dubi’s idea revolves round numbers assigned to the loot that bosses drop once they’re killed. Within the screenshot shared with their unique publish, you’ll be able to observe a sequence of main bosses’ names, not all tied to remembrances, with ID numbers of 9100-9135, whereas after 9180, you’ve got obtained merchandise drops associated to minor bosses like Loretta’s Greatbow or the Marais Executioner’s Sword.
Sekiro Dubi notes that 30 codes, 9140-9169, are unused, and argues that they’re reserved for DLC bosses. Though Sekiro Dubi made these posts on Halloween, after Elden Ring’s 1.07 replace, evidently these boss IDs have been reserved on this manner since launch, versus the clean map IDs uncovered by Lance and Zullie, which had been added within the 1.07 replace.
Sekiro Dubi cautions (opens in new tab) that the 30 reserved slots don’t assure what number of bosses may seem in a possible DLC. “It isn’t a tough cap, they will actually add comparable flags like these wherever they please,” The dataminer said. “They only reserved 30 flag IDs for DLC boss stuff, they may additionally add bosses that do not require these flags.”
It is arduous to make a definitive conclusion from this proof, apart from that it is additional help that some type of enlargement or DLC is coming finally. At this level within the life cycle of each earlier Soulsborne recreation in addition to Sekiro, FromSoft had launched some type of DLC content material like Darkish Souls 3’s Ashes of Ariandel or Bloodborne’s The Outdated Hunters.
These occasions initialize flags & loot for killing bosses. They reserved the slots from 9140 to 9169 for DLC. As you’ll be able to see there’s even unused boss flags for stuff that was in all probability lower, like 9102 a boss in Stormveil, or 9124 https://t.co/iedwIH0xq4 pic.twitter.com/jYrq5lqCM5November 1, 2022
The difficulties of pandemic growth, in addition to Elden Ring’s little question exhausting growth cycle, have seemingly prolonged this timeline, although I would not count on to attend so long as we now have for Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty (opens in new tab). I am perpetually an optimist, and I am hopeful we’ll obtain some phrase on an enlargement to Elden Ring quickly. Till then, it is again to the tea leaves of occasion flag ID numbers.
